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T. Seck

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Think kinda lame "Guardians of the Galaxy", except…

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-22-25

Not as funny. No alien main characters. No soundtrack. More 50's references than 80's references.
Still, pretty entertaining fluff.

The narrator is good, other than the bizarre lack of ability (for a narrator) to have more than one discernible voice. The women sound like the men, and the aliens sound like humans (except that he occasionally adds a faint accent)

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It's good. Even "very" good. Even great, if you don't mind predestination

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-26-25

"Predestination" is not a spoiler. It's foundational to the story. It's annoying, but he manages to make it work. There was only one (repeatedly, by multiple people) ridiculously bad decision, out of all 3 books, where I was screaming at my phone trying to get them not to ignore the obvious. The author's attempts to explain the repeated bad decision (which is better than many authors, who just us "stupidity" as the explanation) just weren't satisfying, and it was obvious what was going to happen for several chapters (and hours).
In the end, I was just happy when the bad thing finally happened, so everyone could stop ignoring the obvious foreshadowing.

Ironically, with all that buildup, it ended up not causing much of a problem, which makes me wonder why he even bothered shoe-horning it in.

There's a nice twist at the very end that makes the predestination tolerable.

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Good story, but he's still a stupid kid

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-10-25

Even when he explains that he did something stupid because he was a stupid kid, it still annoys me. I think it's because they are usually not the kind of stupid things I did as a teenager.
Still, the overall story was good, and the writing was great. It's not the author's fault that I consider being stupid to be the worst plot device ever devised.

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My new favorite not-in-my-genres book

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-21-25

It was just really interesting, along with being well-written. The protagonist was a "cranky, bitter, old woman," but so much more than that. She showed many things, including, perhaps most impressively, that even an elderly woman, with a long history of mistreatment, going back to her childhood, can come to terms with it and grow to become a more loving and accepting person, even with those that are different from everyone she's ever known.
When you mix that with an alien people with a mysterious and blended history and culture, plus an intricate language exchange, technology re-creation, and so much more, it becomes a wonder.

It is a timeless book that deserves a much wider audience.

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Narrator change too drastic

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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-13-25

If you have one narrator for 6 books, then switch to a similar one, thing bring the original back, people will start to ssociate that narrator and that style with the story.

If you then you bring in someone new, and very different, and have them pronounce all the place names differently, while adding inflection in strange places at the end of almost every sentence, and giving everyone under 15 really high squeaky voices, it might bother some people.

It definitely botheted me.

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If you're a "hard science" writer, but you aren't a geneticist, don't try to write genetic "hard science."

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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-03-24

I quit when it hit the "5000 years later" part and it turns out that the genetic scientist, whose one job was to ensure genetic diversity, went in the opposite direction.
Until then, it was a pretty typical Stephenson novel, with lots of "hard science" used to build the story, other than that the "foreshadowing" was laid much thicker than expected.

He even foreshadowed the complete failure of genetic diversification so bluntly at the end of part 2 that I went into the last part thinking, "If he seriously plans to screw this up that badly, I'm done."

He should stick with physics and codebreaking.

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Loved 95% of it

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-10-24

ML Wang is an excellent author. Both of her books I've read (her only remaining non YA novels) have been excellent, both in the story and the writing. Both have been compelling and hard to put down/turn off.
I just didn't like the ending, especially the very end. It didn't seem to make sense for the world she wrote about in the rest of the book, and it didn't solve the underlying problem.

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I hope this is the last Murtagh book

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-03-24

I love the Inheritance Cycle, but it appears that the author has determined that Murtagh's past made him an idiot. He chooses, time and again, to go against the advice of friends, logic, foretellings and even over Thorn's reluctance. It never goes well.

I stopped reading it halfway through, disgusted with the poor decision-making. I returned to it several months later, since I couldn't remember why I'd stopped. It took less than a chapter to be reminded, as he continued to follow the same pattern, but to a lesser extent. He keeps it up to the bitter end, creating the next story line through sheer lack of common sense, which is excused as curiosity or, as he often justifies his actions, "I need to know, now, to protect everyone and no one else could possibly help or come back later to do it."

Poor decisions, especially repeated poor decisions, inexeplicable or "explained" by past trauma, are the writing device of the lazy and/or the speed-writer. It wouldn't have taken a ton of effort to have him take the same actions, but for a decent reason that forces his hand, like a hostage, a known time limit, or at least a single opinion from another person that agrees with his course of action.

It happens in so many books that it seems that some writers believe that readers *want* characters to make poor decisions, so they are more "believable," but if that's the explanation then I'd appreciate it if they'd space them out enough that I can stop being annoyed with the last one before the next one hits…

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The best boring book I've ever read :)

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-10-24

I liked it, but I won't continue the series. There is almost zero conflict. The most "stressful" moment was the difficulty one character had passing a test. It's the "slice of life" of space fiction.
I don't know how Mr. Lowell is able to make boring enjoyable, but he does, over and over. It makes me wish he'd write something deeper.

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Most of the main characters get more likeable.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-25-24

This is a very good book, but it's really long, and it can seem, in the beginning, that it's not going to be worth it, but please push on, unless you're politically a fairly hard conservative, in which case it will offend you and your loved ones on almost every page…
Most of the characters start out as not very likeable. Minor spolier: If you can push through the first story of the addict, when he rapes a girl that's passed out drunk and in general seems to be a waste of a human life (even in his own opinion) he eventually, over 20+ years, develops into someone that cares about other people and sacrifices himself to save other people's lives.
In general, I don't like redemption stories, and most of the characters in this book start out needing to be redeemed. I prefer protagonists who seem to be decent people, but with some flaws. That's not how this book works, other than 1 or 2 notable characters out of 10+ "main" characters and 20+ "major" characters.
Some of them, however, get worse, including "radicalization" stories that in some sense are treated as "necessary."

I trusted Stephen King's opinion though, and trudged on, and it was worth it, although I could have done without the last chapter (a flashback).

I don't think I "liked" a single major character, but I'm (obviously) a fairly judgemental person, so maybe you'll just accept them as they are and appreciate the good points. I hope you are, and this book is all about hope (with a heavy dose of despair).

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